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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2023-07-01T16:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-01T16:24:31+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove the deprecated rule to build *.dtbo from *.dts

 - Refactor section mismatch detection in modpost

 - Fix bogus ARM section mismatch detections

 - Fix error of 'make gtags' with O= option

 - Add Clang's target triple to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS to fix a build error
   with the latest LLVM version

 - Rebuild the built-in initrd when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

 - Ignore more compiler-generated symbols for kallsyms

 - Fix 'make local*config' to handle the ${CONFIG_FOO} form in Makefiles

 - Enable more kernel-doc warnings with W=2

 - Refactor &lt;linux/export.h&gt; by generating KSYMTAB data by modpost

 - Deprecate &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and &lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt;

 - Remove the EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL macro

 - Move the check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL back to modpost, which makes
   the build faster

 - Re-implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with one-pass algorithm

 - Warn missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION when building modules with W=1

 - Make 'make clean' robust against too long argument error

 - Exclude more objects from GCOV to fix CFI failures with GCOV

 - Allow 'make modules_install' to install modules.builtin and
   modules.builtin.modinfo even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Include modules.builtin and modules.builtin.modinfo in the
   linux-image Debian package even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Revive "Entering directory" logging for the latest Make version

* tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (72 commits)
  modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions
  kbuild: revive "Entering directory" for Make &gt;= 4.4.1
  kbuild: set correct abs_srctree and abs_objtree for package builds
  scripts/mksysmap: Ignore prefixed KCFI symbols
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb
  kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin*
  modpost: continue even with unknown relocation type
  modpost: factor out Elf_Sym pointer calculation to section_rel()
  modpost: factor out inst location calculation to section_rel()
  kbuild: Disable GCOV for *.mod.o
  kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV
  kbuild: make clean rule robust against too long argument error
  script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing
  kbuild: make modules_install copy modules.builtin(.modinfo)
  linux/export.h: rename 'sec' argument to 'license'
  modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings
  modpost: merge two similar section mismatch warnings
  kbuild: implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion
  modpost: use null string instead of NULL pointer for default namespace
  modpost: squash sym_update_namespace() into sym_add_exported()
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove the deprecated rule to build *.dtbo from *.dts

 - Refactor section mismatch detection in modpost

 - Fix bogus ARM section mismatch detections

 - Fix error of 'make gtags' with O= option

 - Add Clang's target triple to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS to fix a build error
   with the latest LLVM version

 - Rebuild the built-in initrd when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

 - Ignore more compiler-generated symbols for kallsyms

 - Fix 'make local*config' to handle the ${CONFIG_FOO} form in Makefiles

 - Enable more kernel-doc warnings with W=2

 - Refactor &lt;linux/export.h&gt; by generating KSYMTAB data by modpost

 - Deprecate &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and &lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt;

 - Remove the EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL macro

 - Move the check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL back to modpost, which makes
   the build faster

 - Re-implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with one-pass algorithm

 - Warn missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION when building modules with W=1

 - Make 'make clean' robust against too long argument error

 - Exclude more objects from GCOV to fix CFI failures with GCOV

 - Allow 'make modules_install' to install modules.builtin and
   modules.builtin.modinfo even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Include modules.builtin and modules.builtin.modinfo in the
   linux-image Debian package even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Revive "Entering directory" logging for the latest Make version

* tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (72 commits)
  modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions
  kbuild: revive "Entering directory" for Make &gt;= 4.4.1
  kbuild: set correct abs_srctree and abs_objtree for package builds
  scripts/mksysmap: Ignore prefixed KCFI symbols
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb
  kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin*
  modpost: continue even with unknown relocation type
  modpost: factor out Elf_Sym pointer calculation to section_rel()
  modpost: factor out inst location calculation to section_rel()
  kbuild: Disable GCOV for *.mod.o
  kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV
  kbuild: make clean rule robust against too long argument error
  script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing
  kbuild: make modules_install copy modules.builtin(.modinfo)
  linux/export.h: rename 'sec' argument to 'license'
  modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings
  modpost: merge two similar section mismatch warnings
  kbuild: implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion
  modpost: use null string instead of NULL pointer for default namespace
  modpost: squash sym_update_namespace() into sym_add_exported()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>rust: upgrade to Rust 1.68.2</title>
<updated>2023-05-31T15:35:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-18T21:43:47+00:00</published>
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This is the first upgrade to the Rust toolchain since the initial Rust
merge, from 1.62.0 to 1.68.2 (i.e. the latest).

# Context

The kernel currently supports only a single Rust version [1] (rather
than a minimum) given our usage of some "unstable" Rust features [2]
which do not promise backwards compatibility.

The goal is to reach a point where we can declare a minimum version for
the toolchain. For instance, by waiting for some of the features to be
stabilized. Therefore, the first minimum Rust version that the kernel
will support is "in the future".

# Upgrade policy

Given we will eventually need to reach that minimum version, it would be
ideal to upgrade the compiler from time to time to be as close as
possible to that goal and find any issues sooner. In the extreme, we
could upgrade as soon as a new Rust release is out. Of course, upgrading
so often is in stark contrast to what one normally would need for GCC
and LLVM, especially given the release schedule: 6 weeks for Rust vs.
half a year for LLVM and a year for GCC.

Having said that, there is no particular advantage to updating slowly
either: kernel developers in "stable" distributions are unlikely to be
able to use their distribution-provided Rust toolchain for the kernel
anyway [3]. Instead, by routinely upgrading to the latest instead,
kernel developers using Linux distributions that track the latest Rust
release may be able to use those rather than Rust-provided ones,
especially if their package manager allows to pin / hold back /
downgrade the version for some days during windows where the version may
not match. For instance, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo and openSUSE all provide
and track the latest version of Rust as they get released every 6 weeks.

Then, when the minimum version is reached, we will stop upgrading and
decide how wide the window of support will be. For instance, a year of
Rust versions. We will probably want to start small, and then widen it
over time, just like the kernel did originally for LLVM, see commit
3519c4d6e08e ("Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version").

# Unstable features stabilized

This upgrade allows us to remove the following unstable features since
they were stabilized:

  - `feature(explicit_generic_args_with_impl_trait)` (1.63).
  - `feature(core_ffi_c)` (1.64).
  - `feature(generic_associated_types)` (1.65).
  - `feature(const_ptr_offset_from)` (1.65, *).
  - `feature(bench_black_box)` (1.66, *).
  - `feature(pin_macro)` (1.68).

The ones marked with `*` apply only to our old `rust` branch, not
mainline yet, i.e. only for code that we may potentially upstream.

With this patch applied, the only unstable feature allowed to be used
outside the `kernel` crate is `new_uninit`, though other code to be
upstreamed may increase the list.

Please see [2] for details.

# Other required changes

Since 1.63, `rustdoc` triggers the `broken_intra_doc_links` lint for
links pointing to exported (`#[macro_export]`) `macro_rules`. An issue
was opened upstream [4], but it turns out it is intended behavior. For
the moment, just add an explicit reference for each link. Later we can
revisit this if `rustdoc` removes the compatibility measure.

Nevertheless, this was helpful to discover a link that was pointing to
the wrong place unintentionally. Since that one was actually wrong, it
is fixed in a previous commit independently.

Another change was the addition of `cfg(no_rc)` and `cfg(no_sync)` in
upstream [5], thus remove our original changes for that.

Similarly, upstream now tests that it compiles successfully with
`#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]` [6], which allow us to get rid
of some changes, such as an `#[allow(dead_code)]`.

In addition, remove another `#[allow(dead_code)]` due to new uses
within the standard library.

Finally, add `try_extend_trusted` and move the code in `spec_extend.rs`
since upstream moved it for the infallible version.

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

There are a large amount of changes, but the vast majority of them are
due to our `alloc` fork being upgraded at once.

There are two kinds of changes to be aware of: the ones coming from
upstream, which we should follow as closely as possible, and the updates
needed in our added fallible APIs to keep them matching the newer
infallible APIs coming from upstream.

Instead of taking a look at the diff of this patch, an alternative
approach is reviewing a diff of the changes between upstream `alloc` and
the kernel's. This allows to easily inspect the kernel additions only,
especially to check if the fallible methods we already have still match
the infallible ones in the new version coming from upstream.

Another approach is reviewing the changes introduced in the additions in
the kernel fork between the two versions. This is useful to spot
potentially unintended changes to our additions.

To apply these approaches, one may follow steps similar to the following
to generate a pair of patches that show the differences between upstream
Rust and the kernel (for the subset of `alloc` we use) before and after
applying this patch:

    # Get the difference with respect to the old version.
    git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
    git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
        cut -d/ -f3- |
        grep -Fv README.md |
        xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
    git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R &gt; old.patch
    git -C linux restore rust/alloc

    # Apply this patch.
    git -C linux am rust-upgrade.patch

    # Get the difference with respect to the new version.
    git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
    git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
        cut -d/ -f3- |
        grep -Fv README.md |
        xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
    git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R &gt; new.patch
    git -C linux restore rust/alloc

Now one may check the `new.patch` to take a look at the additions (first
approach) or at the difference between those two patches (second
approach). For the latter, a side-by-side tool is recommended.

Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [1]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72mT3bVDKdHgaea-6WiZazd8Mvurqmqegbe5JZxVyLR8Yg@mail.gmail.com/ [3]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/106142 [4]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/89891 [5]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/98652 [6]
Reviewed-by: Björn Roy Baron &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-By: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ariel Miculas &lt;amiculas@cisco.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230418214347.324156-4-ojeda@kernel.org
[ Removed `feature(core_ffi_c)` from `uapi` ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is the first upgrade to the Rust toolchain since the initial Rust
merge, from 1.62.0 to 1.68.2 (i.e. the latest).

# Context

The kernel currently supports only a single Rust version [1] (rather
than a minimum) given our usage of some "unstable" Rust features [2]
which do not promise backwards compatibility.

The goal is to reach a point where we can declare a minimum version for
the toolchain. For instance, by waiting for some of the features to be
stabilized. Therefore, the first minimum Rust version that the kernel
will support is "in the future".

# Upgrade policy

Given we will eventually need to reach that minimum version, it would be
ideal to upgrade the compiler from time to time to be as close as
possible to that goal and find any issues sooner. In the extreme, we
could upgrade as soon as a new Rust release is out. Of course, upgrading
so often is in stark contrast to what one normally would need for GCC
and LLVM, especially given the release schedule: 6 weeks for Rust vs.
half a year for LLVM and a year for GCC.

Having said that, there is no particular advantage to updating slowly
either: kernel developers in "stable" distributions are unlikely to be
able to use their distribution-provided Rust toolchain for the kernel
anyway [3]. Instead, by routinely upgrading to the latest instead,
kernel developers using Linux distributions that track the latest Rust
release may be able to use those rather than Rust-provided ones,
especially if their package manager allows to pin / hold back /
downgrade the version for some days during windows where the version may
not match. For instance, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo and openSUSE all provide
and track the latest version of Rust as they get released every 6 weeks.

Then, when the minimum version is reached, we will stop upgrading and
decide how wide the window of support will be. For instance, a year of
Rust versions. We will probably want to start small, and then widen it
over time, just like the kernel did originally for LLVM, see commit
3519c4d6e08e ("Documentation: add minimum clang/llvm version").

# Unstable features stabilized

This upgrade allows us to remove the following unstable features since
they were stabilized:

  - `feature(explicit_generic_args_with_impl_trait)` (1.63).
  - `feature(core_ffi_c)` (1.64).
  - `feature(generic_associated_types)` (1.65).
  - `feature(const_ptr_offset_from)` (1.65, *).
  - `feature(bench_black_box)` (1.66, *).
  - `feature(pin_macro)` (1.68).

The ones marked with `*` apply only to our old `rust` branch, not
mainline yet, i.e. only for code that we may potentially upstream.

With this patch applied, the only unstable feature allowed to be used
outside the `kernel` crate is `new_uninit`, though other code to be
upstreamed may increase the list.

Please see [2] for details.

# Other required changes

Since 1.63, `rustdoc` triggers the `broken_intra_doc_links` lint for
links pointing to exported (`#[macro_export]`) `macro_rules`. An issue
was opened upstream [4], but it turns out it is intended behavior. For
the moment, just add an explicit reference for each link. Later we can
revisit this if `rustdoc` removes the compatibility measure.

Nevertheless, this was helpful to discover a link that was pointing to
the wrong place unintentionally. Since that one was actually wrong, it
is fixed in a previous commit independently.

Another change was the addition of `cfg(no_rc)` and `cfg(no_sync)` in
upstream [5], thus remove our original changes for that.

Similarly, upstream now tests that it compiles successfully with
`#[cfg(not(no_global_oom_handling))]` [6], which allow us to get rid
of some changes, such as an `#[allow(dead_code)]`.

In addition, remove another `#[allow(dead_code)]` due to new uses
within the standard library.

Finally, add `try_extend_trusted` and move the code in `spec_extend.rs`
since upstream moved it for the infallible version.

# `alloc` upgrade and reviewing

There are a large amount of changes, but the vast majority of them are
due to our `alloc` fork being upgraded at once.

There are two kinds of changes to be aware of: the ones coming from
upstream, which we should follow as closely as possible, and the updates
needed in our added fallible APIs to keep them matching the newer
infallible APIs coming from upstream.

Instead of taking a look at the diff of this patch, an alternative
approach is reviewing a diff of the changes between upstream `alloc` and
the kernel's. This allows to easily inspect the kernel additions only,
especially to check if the fallible methods we already have still match
the infallible ones in the new version coming from upstream.

Another approach is reviewing the changes introduced in the additions in
the kernel fork between the two versions. This is useful to spot
potentially unintended changes to our additions.

To apply these approaches, one may follow steps similar to the following
to generate a pair of patches that show the differences between upstream
Rust and the kernel (for the subset of `alloc` we use) before and after
applying this patch:

    # Get the difference with respect to the old version.
    git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
    git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
        cut -d/ -f3- |
        grep -Fv README.md |
        xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
    git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R &gt; old.patch
    git -C linux restore rust/alloc

    # Apply this patch.
    git -C linux am rust-upgrade.patch

    # Get the difference with respect to the new version.
    git -C rust checkout $(linux/scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
    git -C linux ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD -- rust/alloc |
        cut -d/ -f3- |
        grep -Fv README.md |
        xargs -IPATH cp rust/library/alloc/src/PATH linux/rust/alloc/PATH
    git -C linux diff --patch-with-stat --summary -R &gt; new.patch
    git -C linux restore rust/alloc

Now one may check the `new.patch` to take a look at the additions (first
approach) or at the difference between those two patches (second
approach). For the latter, a side-by-side tool is recommended.

Link: https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-version-policy [1]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72mT3bVDKdHgaea-6WiZazd8Mvurqmqegbe5JZxVyLR8Yg@mail.gmail.com/ [3]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/106142 [4]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/89891 [5]
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/98652 [6]
Reviewed-by: Björn Roy Baron &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-By: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo &lt;yakoyoku@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ariel Miculas &lt;amiculas@cisco.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230418214347.324156-4-ojeda@kernel.org
[ Removed `feature(core_ffi_c)` from `uapi` ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: Add tar requirement to changes.rst</title>
<updated>2023-05-28T07:22:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-21T13:23:36+00:00</published>
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tar is used to build the kernel with CONFIG_IKHEADERS.

GNU tar 1.28 or later is required.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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tar is used to build the kernel with CONFIG_IKHEADERS.

GNU tar 1.28 or later is required.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: Set minimal gtags / GNU GLOBAL version to 6.6.5</title>
<updated>2023-05-22T01:34:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed S. Darwish</name>
<email>darwi@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-15T17:32:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Kernel build now uses the gtags "-C (--directory)" option, available
since GNU GLOBAL v6.6.5.  Update the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwi@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-global/2020-09/msg00000.html
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Kernel build now uses the gtags "-C (--directory)" option, available
since GNU GLOBAL v6.6.5.  Update the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwi@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-global/2020-09/msg00000.html
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T13:21:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-12T18:18:41+00:00</published>
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Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.

We already require GCC 5.1, released in 2015.

Bump the binutils version to 2.25, which was released some months
before GCC 5.1.

With this applied, some subsystems can start to clean up code.
Examples:
  arch/arm/Kconfig.assembler
  arch/mips/vdso/Kconfig
  arch/powerpc/Makefile
  arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
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<pre>
Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.

We already require GCC 5.1, released in 2015.

Bump the binutils version to 2.25, which was released some months
before GCC 5.1.

With this applied, some subsystems can start to clean up code.
Examples:
  arch/arm/Kconfig.assembler
  arch/mips/vdso/Kconfig
  arch/powerpc/Makefile
  arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2022-10-10T19:00:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T19:00:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8afc66e8d43be8edcf442165b70d50dd33091e68'/>
<id>8afc66e8d43be8edcf442165b70d50dd33091e68</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove potentially incomplete targets when Kbuid is interrupted by
   SIGINT etc in case GNU Make may miss to do that when stderr is piped
   to another program.

 - Rewrite the single target build so it works more correctly.

 - Fix rpm-pkg builds with V=1.

 - List top-level subdirectories in ./Kbuild.

 - Ignore auto-generated __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols in
   kallsyms.

 - Avoid two different modules in lib/zstd/ having shared code, which
   potentially causes building the common code as build-in and modular
   back-and-forth.

 - Unify two modpost invocations to optimize the build process.

 - Remove head-y syntax in favor of linker scripts for placing
   particular sections in the head of vmlinux.

 - Bump the minimal GNU Make version to 3.82.

 - Clean up misc Makefiles and scripts.

* tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits)
  docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82
  ia64: simplify esi object addition in Makefile
  Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"
  kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its prerequisite is updated
  kbuild: move modules.builtin(.modinfo) rules to Makefile.vmlinux_o
  zstd: Fixing mixed module-builtin objects
  kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols
  kallsyms: take the input file instead of reading stdin
  kallsyms: drop duplicated ignore patterns from kallsyms.c
  kbuild: reuse mksysmap output for kallsyms
  mksysmap: update comment about __crc_*
  kbuild: remove head-y syntax
  kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head
  kbuild: hide error checker logs for V=1 builds
  kbuild: re-run modpost when it is updated
  kbuild: unify two modpost invocations
  kbuild: move vmlinux.o rule to the top Makefile
  kbuild: move .vmlinux.objs rule to Makefile.modpost
  kbuild: list sub-directories in ./Kbuild
  Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove potentially incomplete targets when Kbuid is interrupted by
   SIGINT etc in case GNU Make may miss to do that when stderr is piped
   to another program.

 - Rewrite the single target build so it works more correctly.

 - Fix rpm-pkg builds with V=1.

 - List top-level subdirectories in ./Kbuild.

 - Ignore auto-generated __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols in
   kallsyms.

 - Avoid two different modules in lib/zstd/ having shared code, which
   potentially causes building the common code as build-in and modular
   back-and-forth.

 - Unify two modpost invocations to optimize the build process.

 - Remove head-y syntax in favor of linker scripts for placing
   particular sections in the head of vmlinux.

 - Bump the minimal GNU Make version to 3.82.

 - Clean up misc Makefiles and scripts.

* tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits)
  docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82
  ia64: simplify esi object addition in Makefile
  Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"
  kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its prerequisite is updated
  kbuild: move modules.builtin(.modinfo) rules to Makefile.vmlinux_o
  zstd: Fixing mixed module-builtin objects
  kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols
  kallsyms: take the input file instead of reading stdin
  kallsyms: drop duplicated ignore patterns from kallsyms.c
  kbuild: reuse mksysmap output for kallsyms
  mksysmap: update comment about __crc_*
  kbuild: remove head-y syntax
  kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head
  kbuild: hide error checker logs for V=1 builds
  kbuild: re-run modpost when it is updated
  kbuild: unify two modpost invocations
  kbuild: move vmlinux.o rule to the top Makefile
  kbuild: move .vmlinux.objs rule to Makefile.modpost
  kbuild: list sub-directories in ./Kbuild
  Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82</title>
<updated>2022-10-06T00:16:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-01T20:28:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0715fdb03e2c4f5748d245a231e422602ed29f33'/>
<id>0715fdb03e2c4f5748d245a231e422602ed29f33</id>
<content type='text'>
GNU Make 3.81 fails in CONFIG_RUST=y builds.

  rust/Makefile:105: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.
  make[1]: *** [prepare] Error 2
  make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2

The error message is unclear, but the reason is because the 'private'
keyword is only supported since GNU Make 3.82.

GNU Make 3.81 is still able to build the kernel when CONFIG_RUST is
disabled, but it might be a good timing to raise the minimal GNU Make
version. Perhaps, I am the last person who was testing GNU Make 3.81.

GNU Make 3.81 was released in 2006, GNU Make 3.82 in 2010.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
GNU Make 3.81 fails in CONFIG_RUST=y builds.

  rust/Makefile:105: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.
  make[1]: *** [prepare] Error 2
  make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2

The error message is unclear, but the reason is because the 'private'
keyword is only supported since GNU Make 3.82.

GNU Make 3.81 is still able to build the kernel when CONFIG_RUST is
disabled, but it might be a good timing to raise the minimal GNU Make
version. Perhaps, I am the last person who was testing GNU Make 3.81.

GNU Make 3.81 was released in 2006, GNU Make 3.82 in 2010.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: add Rust documentation</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T07:02:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>ojeda@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-03T15:23:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d07479b211b7a86c93883c74b8f9b1e33d06e262'/>
<id>d07479b211b7a86c93883c74b8f9b1e33d06e262</id>
<content type='text'>
Most of the documentation for Rust is written within the source code
itself, as it is idiomatic for Rust projects. This applies to both
the shared infrastructure at `rust/` as well as any other Rust module
(e.g. drivers) written across the kernel.

However, these documents contain general information that does not
fit particularly well in the source code, like the Quick Start guide.

It also contains a few other small changes elsewhere in the
documentation folder.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Finn Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.de&gt;
Co-developed-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye &lt;ark.email@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye &lt;ark.email@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Co-developed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck &lt;thesven73@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck &lt;thesven73@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Wu XiangCheng &lt;bobwxc@email.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng &lt;bobwxc@email.cn&gt;
Co-developed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou &lt;bobo1239@web.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou &lt;bobo1239@web.de&gt;
Co-developed-by: Yuki Okushi &lt;jtitor@2k36.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuki Okushi &lt;jtitor@2k36.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Co-developed-by: Julian Merkle &lt;me@jvmerkle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julian Merkle &lt;me@jvmerkle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Most of the documentation for Rust is written within the source code
itself, as it is idiomatic for Rust projects. This applies to both
the shared infrastructure at `rust/` as well as any other Rust module
(e.g. drivers) written across the kernel.

However, these documents contain general information that does not
fit particularly well in the source code, like the Quick Start guide.

It also contains a few other small changes elsewhere in the
documentation folder.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Finn Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens &lt;me@kloenk.de&gt;
Co-developed-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye &lt;ark.email@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye &lt;ark.email@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Co-developed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck &lt;thesven73@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck &lt;thesven73@gmail.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Wu XiangCheng &lt;bobwxc@email.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng &lt;bobwxc@email.cn&gt;
Co-developed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou &lt;bobo1239@web.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou &lt;bobo1239@web.de&gt;
Co-developed-by: Yuki Okushi &lt;jtitor@2k36.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yuki Okushi &lt;jtitor@2k36.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Co-developed-by: Julian Merkle &lt;me@jvmerkle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julian Merkle &lt;me@jvmerkle.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/check-local-export: avoid 'wait $!' for process substitution</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T18:47:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-08T01:11:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=da4288b95baa1c7c9aa8a476f58b37eb238745b0'/>
<id>da4288b95baa1c7c9aa8a476f58b37eb238745b0</id>
<content type='text'>
Bash 4.4, released in 2016, supports 'wait $!' to check the exit status
of a process substitution, but it seems too new.

Some people using older bash versions (on CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04, etc.)
reported an error like this:

  ./scripts/check-local-export: line 54: wait: pid 17328 is not a child of this shell

I used the process substitution to avoid a pipeline, which executes each
command in a subshell. If the while-loop is executed in the subshell
context, variable changes within are lost after the subshell terminates.

Fortunately, Bash 4.2, released in 2011, supports the 'lastpipe' option,
which makes the last element of a pipeline run in the current shell process.

Switch to the pipeline with 'lastpipe' solution, and also set 'pipefail'
to catch errors from ${NM}.

Add the bash requirement to Documentation/process/changes.rst.

Fixes: 31cb50b5590f ("kbuild: check static EXPORT_SYMBOL* by script instead of modpost")
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Yugui &lt;wangyugui@e16-tech.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Bash 4.4, released in 2016, supports 'wait $!' to check the exit status
of a process substitution, but it seems too new.

Some people using older bash versions (on CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04, etc.)
reported an error like this:

  ./scripts/check-local-export: line 54: wait: pid 17328 is not a child of this shell

I used the process substitution to avoid a pipeline, which executes each
command in a subshell. If the while-loop is executed in the subshell
context, variable changes within are lost after the subshell terminates.

Fortunately, Bash 4.2, released in 2011, supports the 'lastpipe' option,
which makes the last element of a pipeline run in the current shell process.

Switch to the pipeline with 'lastpipe' solution, and also set 'pipefail'
to catch errors from ${NM}.

Add the bash requirement to Documentation/process/changes.rst.

Fixes: 31cb50b5590f ("kbuild: check static EXPORT_SYMBOL* by script instead of modpost")
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Wang Yugui &lt;wangyugui@e16-tech.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt; # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Docs: Replace version by 'current' in changes.rst</title>
<updated>2022-04-22T15:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bruno Moreira-Guedes</name>
<email>codeagain@codeagain.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-19T14:48:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5a5866c28b43e26dc7594b735b2a44e538ec63a4'/>
<id>5a5866c28b43e26dc7594b735b2a44e538ec63a4</id>
<content type='text'>
The file 'Documentation/process/changes.rst' states the listed
requirements are for the 4.x kernel version. However, there are
requirements updated for the 5.x version, as there might be in other
future versions. This patch updates it to 'latest' so the document won't
be outdated in the future.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Moreira-Guedes &lt;codeagain@codeagain.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The file 'Documentation/process/changes.rst' states the listed
requirements are for the 4.x kernel version. However, there are
requirements updated for the 5.x version, as there might be in other
future versions. This patch updates it to 'latest' so the document won't
be outdated in the future.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Moreira-Guedes &lt;codeagain@codeagain.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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